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After-Before Friday Week 40

Highlighting the creative magic behind post-processed photos

Welcome to ABFriday! As a reminder, next week’s ABF post will reveal the photo for April’s One Photo Focus that all participants will be editing, so be sure to check back if you want to participate. And if you want to help decide which photo will be edited, head on over and visit Cee Neuner at Cee’s Photography. Cee is the next photographer to submit a photo for One Photo Focus and she’s asking for help from her readers to decide between 5 different photos. Great idea, Cee 🙂 So head on over, take a look, and vote!For all the details on ABFriday and One Photo Focus, visit the After-Before Friday Forum page. And now, on to this week’s galleries of submissions!

My submission: Taken at Christmastime, this is my faithful sidekick, Brandy, taking up residence in my desk chair. Guess she got tired of me sitting in front of my computer! The original photo was underexposed, but I’ve employed Lightroom 5, using basic adjustments and a combination of gradient filters, radial filters, and adjustment brushes to bring it to the end result.

Katie says: This shot was taken on a recent visit to RHS Harlow Carr, these beautiful hellebores, were in flower everywhere, with their delicate white flowers. I wanted to convert this to monochrome to emphasise the whites of the petals and their beautifully simple form.

Loré says: I used the same image for this week’s Monochrome Madness, where I went more for the atmosphere than the actual improvement. I was curious to see how much I can improve on the original, if any.

Nancy says: I wanted to do something completely different with this image, and was so excited when I found the Polar Coordinates filter in PhotoShop. Then I had fun with a gradient layer to soften the edges. Hope you like it!

Please click on the links of those who contributed this week, to read about their post-processing steps and/or to see what other treasures they have on their blogs. They’d love to have you visit!

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Feel free to leave your thoughts and suggestions in the comment section. And don’t forget to view the guidelines if you want to participate. I’d love to have you onboard!

What a cute pup! I agree that she’s telling you that you need to get out of that chair and play with her. 😀 She looks like an older pup, how old is she? Mine is about 11 years old. Your edits really bring out the image, great job. 😀 I’ll watch to video soon.
Everyone has great submissions this week! I’ll have to go around to everyone’s blog soon. I got sick this past weekend and then got way behind on everything, sorry I missed out this week. Hopefully I can get caught up and submit next week.

Thanks, Nic. She’s 15-1/2, and since that photo, she has become totally blind and totally deaf. The blindness happened so quickly that she didn’t have time to adjust. We have to move her from place to place and, of course, can’t leave her unattended in a room. Very sad 😦